2022年12月22日

全球B2B電子商務市場Bzaar最近宣布獲得400萬美元的種子基金，由Canaan Partners領投。通過其技術平台，Bzaar使印度和東南亞的中小企業(SMBs)能夠直接與世界各地的買家聯係，促進跨境信任，促進國際貿易。這輪融資還包括了著名的天使投資人Binny Bansal (Flipkart的聯合創始人)、Sameer Nigam和Rahul Chari (PhonePe的聯合創始人)、Lee Fixel (Addition的創始人)和Ashish Gupta (Helion Ventures的董事總經理兼聯合創始人)。Bzaar由Nishant Verman和Prasanth Nair於今年早些時候(2021年2月)共同創立，是一個數字全球批發市場，使世界各地的小型零售商能夠從印度和東南亞購買獨特、高質量、精心挑選的產品。Bzaar在50多個垂直行業中擁有超過15,000+產品，包括生活方式，家居，配件，服裝，珠寶，來自基於價值的品牌和印度賣家-所有這些都可以由100多個國家的零售商以具有競爭力的價格直接在線訂購。Bzaar負責整個流程，包括物流和運輸，以確保按時、按承諾送貨到家門口。從曆史上看，較大的零售連鎖店已經建立了實地采購團隊，或與購房人合作進行批量采購。然而，由於缺乏此類基礎設施，中小企業陷入困境——不得不通過審查不暢的貿易目錄或通過線下中介與供應商聯係。Bzaar數字化使每個中小型企業在國際采購方麵都具有與大型企業相同的優勢。無論是產品的選擇、價格、運輸時間還是付款條件，Bzaar認為，無論規模大小或位置如何，每個企業都應該平等地獲得全球供應鏈提供的巨大采購機會。 Nishant Verman, Co-founder and CEO, Bzaar, said, “The pandemic has accelerated the need for supply-chain diversification and triggered a massive surge in businesses looking to expand internationally. Currently, if you’re a small business in India looking to start or accelerate your exports business, the infrastructure is largely offline and opaque or mostly non-existent. Bzaar democratizes exporting from India & Southeast Asia so that the region’s in-demand products are accessible at a global scale.” “This new funding will accelerate Bzaar’s progress in three critical areas - bringing more verified, export-ready manufacturers onto the platform; solving for logistics, quality control, and packaging to deliver predictable and hassle-free sourcing experience; and finally strengthening their India operations to make their products easily accessible to our buyers,” he further added. Joydeep Bhattacharyya, General Partner - Canaan, said, “Today, the US is already the largest export market for Indian goods, representing 17% of total goods exports. Yet no online platforms have really existed for US-based SMBs to discover trusted suppliers, purchase large quantities, and manage the entire buying process. That’s exactly why Bzaar exists and why we’re excited to lead their seed round. Bzaar is solving long-standing problems that have existed on both the demand and supply sides and the digital transformation required to make international wholesale transactions a seamless online experience.” Bazaar has witnessed a 20x increase in the number of sellers using its platform in the last 6 months. The startup is led by seasoned e-commerce leaders who worked previously at Flipkart, Amazon, and Alibaba. Bzaar is a natural intersection of the Founders’ backgrounds - Nishant Verman was head of corporate development at Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce marketplace, where he spearheaded the company’s $16B acquisition by Walmart. Prasanth Nair comes with over two decades of experience in building large-scale enterprise and internet platforms. He led engineering and product teams at Amazon and Flipkart, and subsequently built Alibaba’s B2C cross-border platform Lazada in Singapore. Share this article: